Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry

by Andrew Lakoff

Book Overview

When a French biotechnology company seeks patients in Buenos Aires with bipolar disorder for its gene discovery program, they have unexpected trouble finding enough subjects for the study. In... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521546664
• ISBN13: 9780521546669
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A great book

This is a great book. It shows the effects of the categories we use in a specific context and provides insight of why in some places doctors use a language that is not transfarable to other contexts in their rigid form. As the author shows, categories are inmersed in social, political and epistemological mileu. For those who love Foucault, Harre, Hacking Parker or Rose, this is a very complementary reading.